Strange Adventures

The movie is notable in that, as mentioned above, it s about a mathematical genius named Max who is obsessed with numbers. Max rarely leaves his apartment and sees numbers and number patterns in everything around him. When his computer displays the mystical 216-digit number, it crashes and a strange adventure ensues. Perhaps the number even makes the computer conscious. The audience is never sure. Max decides that the 216-digit number is responsible for his own ill health, and the movie closes as he drills a hole in his own skull as a cure. Weird ending ... 

Geier, C. (1954) Environment, in Strange Adventures in Science Fiction, Groff Conklin, ed. New York Grayson. (Originally published in 1944.) Uses the term hyperspacial drive. You go in here, and you come out there. . .. ... 

The bulk of the adventure stories took a far more serious approach. In Strange Adventures 50 Quly 1955) a visitor from outer space— Radium Man—steals a massive amount of American radium but has to leave it behind because it affected the space-drive mechanism of his rocket ship. In Showcase 23 (1960), Green Lantern stops an invisible villain from detonating an atomic bomb. Four years later, the Flash (May 1964) drew on his super speed to keep a nuclear bomb from obliterating a city. In 1965, Superman s hands became coated with invisible chemicals so that one clap would trigger an atomic explosion. In Adventure Comics 442 (December 1975), Aquaman barely stopped a... 

Strange Adventures 160 (January 1964) (DC Comics). Gerard Jones and Will Jacobs, The Comic Book Heroes (Rocklin, CA Prima Publications, 1997), 24. 

Gogol discloses the secret of the novel in a completely different way The strange adventures of his hero are explained, after the fact, by the ordinariness, even pettiness of his earlier life, and by the constant, unwavering, and passionate desire of the hero to become just like any other member of the landed aristocracy. 

Prepare yourself for a strange journey as The Stars of Heaven unlocks the doors of your imagination with thought-provoking mysteries, puzzles, and problems on topics ranging from stellar anatomy to the birth of solar systems. A resource for science-fiction writers, an adventure and education for beginning physics and astronomy students, each chapter is a world of paradox and mystery. 

With more knowledge comes a deeper, more wonderful mystery, luring one on to penetrate deeper still. Never concerned that the answer may prove disappointing, with pleasure and confidence we turn over each new stone to find unimagined strangeness leading on to more wonderful questions and mysteries—certainly a grand adventure. 

There in a nutshell was the problem vis-a-vis a psychedelic politics these substances opened up much too much. They were a doorway into a universe of strange and sometimes terrifying information. These were not facile tools rather, they were an invitation to explorers, and a percentage of the Baby Boom s best and brightest responded by turning into mind wanderers, seeking adventure in the unclaimed real estate of the imagination. 

The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall amounts to a tall tale version of the then popular myth of the man in the moon. It is discomfiture rather than exhilarating success that awaits Poe s clown astronaut. As he ascends to the dead planet, the balloon is attracted by its gravity and collapses instead of smoothly alighting. Ultimately, the dark and hideous mysteries which lie in the outer regions of the moon P T, 994) are strangely... 

Anthony N. Stranges, William Francis Giauque An Adventure in Low-Temperature Research. /. Chem. Educ., 67, 187-193 (1990). 

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